DarraignTheSane

Uhh... is that normal? I always thought Debian was known for its stability and long release cycle.

I see it as a massively inflated sense of self worth on the mods' part. Yes, /r/sysadmin has been handy for keeping up to date with events in the IT world. Is it the only source of breaking news? Hell no.

Absolute shit take on their part, and a 2-day blackout is the least that they could do. Everyone's systems won't go down in flames because /r/sysadmin isn't there for people to whine about how they hate their jobs for a few days. If there's some major vulnerability being exploited on those days, mainstream news and other tech news sites will pick it up.

However, they're not entirely wrong on the first point. I remembered the 2015 blackout to protest the firing of Victoria the AMA admin and other stuff about Ellen Chao (honestly don't remember or care what it was all about), and it was huge. Most subreddits went dark. Reddit didn't hire Victoria back. If I recall there was a PR statement, and everyone moved on with their lives.

When I was searching for that I found that reddit has had a handful of other blackouts since - one about the SOPA bill (which I seem to recall), another about COVID (which I don't), etc. - and as far as I can tell the most that all of those blackouts ever did was generate press.

They're already at that point - reddit's tenuous situation with their devaluation and the API nonsense has been all over the news, from Ars Technica, to CNN and Reuters. And really I don't think it's going to change anything either. Reddit's going public, the stakeholders will have their say, and the site is going to be monitized and crapified, the users be damned.

But again, going dark for 2 days is, IMO, ethically required. For that matter, they should stay dark until reddit changes course.

Oh well, now we have Lemmy. :)

More like Microsoft 360, amirite? :)

So what do we think? Internal issue or hacktivist attack?

Squeenix - if you don't hire this team and produce this game you're fucking fools. But I think we already know that's the case and you're already furiously typing up the DMCA notices.

Welcome!

I know there are many different front ends with which you can participate in Lemmy servers via the Fediverse, but haven't gotten into it enough to make a recommendation. I've just began checking out https://kbin.social which might be closer to what you're looking for?

I agree that the Lemmy UI isn't old reddit, but it's enough unlike new reddit that I'm comfortable with it. Sure it's got some 'wasted' / open space, but it works well.

Well that's just the thing - there are good use cases for VDI, and that's all this really seems to be at its core. If that's all it is, then it seems like Microsoft just once again repackaging things and calling them their own.

I mean, that is the upside and design intent of Lemmy. Be the change you want to see and stand up an IT focused Lemmy server. I don't have the time or resources for that, but I can help by contributing to and moderating this community on what is currently the largest Lemmy server. Something tells me there will be a number of iterations before the Lemmy-verse settles on which servers become predominate.

Not much different than TOS itself though, albeit with more silly than great episodes IMO. You can tell that many of them would've been TOS season 4 plots... others were made as "kids show" filler.

Agreed on all points. Just to add, I also believe that not much else can happen on the political stage unless we implement a ranked choice or other alternative voting system, to allow 3rd parties some chance of gaining traction.

I found that I only encountered it when viewing 'All > Hot' or 'All > New', I believe. I thought it was someone spamming the server with the same thing to different subs, but I see now that it's a bug.

So for now I stick with 'Subscribed > Hot' or 'Subscribed > New', and I subscribed to a crapload of subs.